Month: August 2026

The golden triangle of art in Madrid

Three world class museums within about a kilometre of each other on one boulevard, which is a concentration nowhere else in Europe matches. The golden

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Funchal in 2 days: gardens, market, wine

A city built up the walls of a natural amphitheatre, where the way down from the hill above is a wicker sledge steered by two

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The Ring of Kerry in one day: a driving guide

A hundred and eighty kilometres around a peninsula in the south west of Ireland, past lakes, mountains, an Atlantic coast and two rock islands with

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Liverpool and the Beatles: where to start

Four people from one city changed popular music, and the city has spent sixty years working out what to do about it. Liverpool and the

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Islay whisky: the distilleries and the island

An island of about three thousand people in the Inner Hebrides with a dozen working distilleries on it, producing the most divisive whisky in the

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The Oslo to Bergen railway: a full guide

Four hundred and ninety six kilometres across the roof of Norway, from the capital on one coast to the fjord city on the other, in

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Finnish Lapland: Santa, reindeer and aurora

The Arctic Circle runs through the northern edge of Rovaniemi, and someone had the commercial sense to put a Santa Claus Village exactly on the

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The Tatra mountains: hiking, lakes, Zakopane

A chain only fifty seven kilometres long, split between Poland and Slovakia, and the only genuinely alpine mountains between the Alps and the Caucasus. The

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Transylvania: Sighisoara, Sibiu and the villages

Between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, German settlers were invited east to defend a frontier, and they built villages with churches you could live inside

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